ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Prologis and Skybox Datacenters have completed a 189,000-square-foot data center at 800 E. Devon Ave. in Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago. Named Skybox Chicago I, the speculative facility sits on a 10-acre site. The project can accommodate a single tenant or several users. Leasing efforts are underway. The project was the conversion of a vacant distribution center.
ST. CHARLES, ILL. — Ready Capital has closed a $24.5 million loan for the acquisition, renovation and stabilization of a 220-unit multifamily property in the Fox River Valley submarket of St. Charles. The undisclosed borrower plans to renovate unit interiors and property exteriors as well as bring in new management. The nonrecourse, floating-rate loan features a three-year term and includes a capital expenditures facility.
SHAKOPEE, MINN. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of a 164,701-square-foot distribution center in the Minneapolis suburb of Shakopee for an undisclosed price. Logistics Insight Corp. fully leases the facility, which was constructed in 1984 and renovated in 2020. Building features include clear heights ranging from 20 to 21 feet, 19 dock-high doors, one drive-in door, LED lighting and 1.5 acres of outside storage. Colin Ryan and David Berglund of JLL represented the seller, Interstate Development. An affiliate of Boston-based STAG Industrial Inc. was the buyer.
GERMANTOWN, WIS. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $3.8 million sale of a 10,782-square-foot property occupied by KinderCare in Germantown, a northern suburb of Milwaukee. Under corporate guarantor KinderCare Education, the childcare provider has just under 11 years remaining on its net lease. Dominic Sulo of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a Michigan-based limited liability company, while Sean Delaney and Jeffrey Herrmann of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, a California-based limited liability company. Dean Giannakopoulos and Frank Montalto of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. originated acquisition financing.
PORT DEPOSIT, MD. — A joint venture between MRP Industrial and Hillwood Development Co. has announced plans for Bainbridge Logistics Center, a 3.7 million-square-foot industrial development in the town of Port Deposit, located in Maryland’s Eastern Shore region. Bainbridge Naval Training Center formerly occupied the 440-acre site, which is located three miles from Interstate 95, approximately 42 miles from Baltimore and 40 miles from Wilmington, Delaware. The project’s first phase of development will include two single-story, speculative, Class A warehouse and logistics buildings totaling 1 million square feet and 605,280 square feet, respectively. The developers are seeking LEED certification for both buildings, which will include LED lighting and white reflective roofs, among other energy-saving design features. Both assets will offer deep truck courts to support the movement of large tractor trailers; parking fields for both employees and visitors; and large floor plates to accommodate a range of uses, including light manufacturing, warehouse, logistics and last-mile operations. The development will also feature $30 million worth of infrastructure improvements, including expansion of both water and sanitary services to support the logistics center and the surrounding community; the construction of three miles of public roads to connect the park to three highways; and …
While the Birmingham market never fluctuates too heavily in either direction, it typically remains relatively stable compared to national trends. Such has been the case with the effects of COVID-19. Birmingham is well-positioned for a return to the office, thanks in large part to our economy’s heavy makeup of local and regional businesses. Most smaller businesses have been in the office for some time, while large national enterprises still wrestle with what normal operations will look like moving forward. General market information Birmingham saw some positive absorption in 2021, with the occupancy rate holding steady at 81 percent, around the historical average. Birmingham comprises approximately 20 million square feet of office space with five main submarkets. Midtown, comprising mostly mid-size, Class A office buildings, remains the strongest submarket with an occupancy rate over 92 percent and rental rates in the mid to high $20s per square foot ($24.12 per square foot average). The Central Business District has seen companies leave for suburban submarkets like Midtown and Highway 280/Interstate 459, however the occupancy rate of 78 percent has remained relatively stable over the past couple of years, with rents in the low to mid $20s per square foot ($21.07 per square …
LOS ANGELES — Breakthrough Properties, a joint venture between Tishman Speyer and Bellco Capital, has closed its Breakthrough Life Science Property Fund. The venture raised $3 billion in direct capital and co-investments, to scale a global portfolio of ecosystems for early-, mid- and late-stage life science companies. Founded in 2019, Breakthrough will use the newly raised funds to finance its ongoing developments, which are in various stages of design, construction and pre-development, as well as and fuel its acquisition of additional opportunities throughout the United States and Europe. The venture currently has 4.6 million square feet of projects in the pipeline across San Diego, Boston and Cambridge, Mass., Philadelphia, Amsterdam and Oxford and Cambridge, UK. In 2021, Breakthrough broke ground on its 515,000-square-foot Torrey View by Breakthrough development, a 10-acre research and development campus in San Diego. The biosciences arm of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.) signed a lease at the campus prior to completion.
SAN DIEGO — Davlyn Investments has completed the sale of Northridge Summit, a Class A office property located at 12220 Scripps Summit Drive in San Diego’s Scripps Poway Parkway submarket. DivcoWest purchased the asset for $76.1 million. At the time of sale, the single-tenant, 130,000-square-foot building was fully leased. The property features 43,000-square-foot rectangular floorplates, one level of below-grade parking, electric vehicle charging stations and a courtyard. Nick Psyllos, Lynn LaChapelle and Kurt Luedtke of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal.
HONOLULU — SRS Real Estate Partners has arranged the leasehold ownership sale of a single-tenant life sciences property located at 93-193 Aiea Heights Drive in Honolulu. iStar, a REIT based in New York City, sold the asset to a private investor for $50.3 million. John Redfield of SRS’ National Net Lease Group represented the buyer and seller in the deal. Built in 1975 and renovated in 2016, the four-story, 81,596-square-foot property sites on 2.7 acres. Clinical Labs of Hawaii occupies the property on a long-term, triple-net lease whereby the buyer acquired the leasehold interest subject to a long-term ground lease.
SPRINGFIELD, ORE. — Ziegler has acted as financial advisor in a debt placement totaling $24 million for a new seniors housing community in Oregon. The borrower, Onelife Senior Living, will use the funds to develop Esther Assisted Living Community, a 103-unit property in Springfield, a suburb of Eugene. The Esther will be the fifth assisted living/memory care community owned by Onelife in the state. The financing provides a construction and bridge term for Onelife to build and stabilize the community prior to placing long-term, permanent, fixed-rate financing via long-term agency debt. The transaction was closed with asset management firm Locust Point Capital.
